Presentation given by Ferenc Csorba and Marco Hogewoning at Liberty Global Technology Summit

1. Moving Towards
IPv6
Liberty Global Technology Summit
Marco Hogewoning
Ferenc Csorba
RIPE NCC

2. The Five RIRs
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3. RIPE NCC
• Service region: Europe, Middle East and parts of
Central Asia
• Supports coordination of Internet operations
• Not-for-profit membership organisation
• Over 7,000 members
• Neutral, impartial, open and transparent
• RIPE: self regulated, open to everyone
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4. Activities
• Distributing and managing number resources
• Routing Registry
• Statistics and measurements
• Education
• K-root
• ENUM root zone
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5. IP Address Distribution
IANA
AfriNIC ARIN RIPE NCC APNIC LACNIC
7,000 LIRs
End Users
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6. The Goals

7. Registration
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8. Conservation
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9. Aggregation
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10. The Problem

11. 4,294,967,296
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12. IANA IPv4 Pool
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
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13. The Solution

14. Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
• Uses 128 bit address space
• Allows for far more than 4 billion addresses
• Designed in 1992
• Not backwards compatible with IPv4
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15. 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456
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16. The Challenge

17. IPv4 IPv6
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18. IPv4
IPv6
Time
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19. IPv4
?
IPv6
Time now
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20. Challenges
• Technology has to be ready
• Requires training
• Requires a different view on the product
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21. The Alternatives

22. Network Address Translation
• Extends the capacity of the IPv4 address space
by sharing an IPv4 address between clients
• Fairly common technology, used everywhere
• Breaks the end to end connectivity model
• It limits development!
• You are probably going to need it in some form
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23. The Statistics

24. How Many Addresses Left?
http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/ipv4-exhaustion/ipv4-available-pool-graph
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25. IPv6 RIPEness
• Rating system designed to monitor progress in
the deployment of IPv6
• Four “stars” to earn, based on the level of
deployment:
– First star for getting an IPv6 allocation
– Subsequent stars awarded for visibility, route objects
and reverse DNS
• Only lists RIPE NCC members
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26. Total Membership (7732 LIRs)
1 star
13%
2 stars
5%
3 stars
10%
No IPv6
55%
4 stars
16%
(1 September 2011)
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27. Liberty Global Markets
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
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No IPv6 1 star 2 star 3 star 4 star
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28. Questions?